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Bespoke Commission
Consultation
01 / 06 Consultation You talk it through with Laurie, at the Wiltshire workshop or by video call, phone or email: how you cook, what the knife needs to do, the knives you love. Arrive with detailed ideas, an old favourite or simply a challenge. Sketches and notes capture the brief.
Design
02 / 06 Design Laurie turns the brief into a precise design in Autodesk Inventor, settling dimensions, blade geometry, construction and handle form. Your ideas become a considered, buildable knife.
Render
03 / 06 Render Renders show how the knife will look, so you can see blade, handle, colours and finishes working together, and refine the details before anything is made.
Mockup
04 / 06 Mockup An acrylic mockup puts the design in your hand: a first physical check of scale, outline and feel.
Prototype
05 / 06 Prototype A fully working steel prototype to cook with and test. You assess how it handles and cuts, and refine the design with Laurie before approving it. One is included for every knife.
Your finished knife
06 / 06 Your finished knife Made in the workshop in your agreed materials, in a premium powder metallurgy steel such as M390, MagnaCut or RWL34, engraved however you like and presented your way.
Bespoke Commission

The Bespoke Commission

Conceive something entirely new, recreate an old favourite or bring together the best of the knives you love. Bespoke starts with a conversation and a blank sheet, and ends with a knife made around your cooking, your cutting style, your taste and your hand.

Giving it as a gift? You don’t have to choose their perfect knife. You give them the opportunity to create it.

£1,750

What’s included

A design consultation with Laurie, in person at the workshop or by video call, phone or email.

Design and renders, refined until you are completely happy, an acrylic mockup, and one working prototype for every knife.

The finished knife in a premium powder metallurgy steel such as M390, MagnaCut or RWL34, with engraving of any kind.

Presentation of your choice: a box, stand, leather roll, wallet or sheath.

Timing

Typically 8 to 12 weeks from consultation to finished knife, depending on how many rounds of refinement you would like.

The commission never expires, so it can begin whenever suits.

Good to know

Exceptional materials, unusually complex work or a larger scope are quoted and agreed before work begins.

Refundable within 14 days of purchase if the consultation hasn’t begun. The full value can always be put towards custom knives instead.

We reserve the right to revisit the price if the underlying economics change very significantly for reasons beyond our control. If we do, the full value can instead be used on custom knives.

We may show the finished knife in our work unless you would rather we didn’t, and we will ask your permission before making the design for anyone else.

Gift cards can be used towards a commission. Promotional codes can’t.

Delivery

The letter, invitation and bespoke guide are emailed as soon as you order, with a code word to begin the commission.

For a gift, the presentation pack is despatched the next working day by Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed in the UK, or UPS worldwide.